Transaortic Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Catheter Insertion through a Separate Saphenous Vein Graft in Patients with Severe Aortoiliac Disease

Table 3

A series of transaortic IABP catheter insertion.

Reference; Year	No. of the patients	Balloon insertion	Balloon removal	Mean duration of IABP support; (hours)	Complications	Outcome
McGeehin et al. [5]; 1987	39	Indirectly,; synthetic graft	CCD (19); OCD (2)	83	Balloon rupture (2), transient ischemic attack (1), graft infection (1), CVA (4)	Overall survival 44%
Meldrum-Hanna et al. [6]; 1985	8	Indirectly,; synthetic graft	CCD (4); OCD (4)	48	Graft infection, aberrant cannulation of left subclavian artery, left coronary embolism, inability to close sternum	Five patients alive
Hazelrigg et al. [7]; 1992	100	Directly	OCD	40.7	Balloon rupture (5), CVA (2), bleeding at arteriotomy site (1), mediastinal infection (3)	Overall mortality 27%
Nunez et al. [8]; 1980	3	Indirectly,; synthetic graft	N/A	48	None	One patient alive
Burack et al. [9]; 1996	14	Indirectly,; synthetic graft	CCD	52.8	Balloon rupture (2), peripheral and cerebral emboli (1), minor wound infection (2)	57% of the patients were discharged
Present study	7	Indirectly,; saphenous vein graft	CCD	54	None	All patients alive

Brackets show the number of patients. References of a case report were not included in Table 3.
IABP: intra-aortic balloon pump; OCD: open chest decannulation (resternotomy); CCD: closed chest decannulation (no resternotomy); CVA: cerebrovascular accident; N/A: not available.